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Monday, April 18, 2016

Hitler, along with much of the educated world at the time, felt that America was certain to go down the tubes because of its free and easy racial mixing, above all in Manhattan.

Hitler was convinced that once his murderous programs had made Germany fully Aryan and fully racially pure, it would soar even higher than it already had, in culture and in technology.

The results of WWII - and the seventy years since - hasn't confirmed those beliefs, far from it.

Draining the gene pool never makes you smarter - just dumber

By contrast, during that same time period Henry Dawson encouraged DIY penicillin by all and sundry, convinced that only that would spur the production of "impure" natural penicillin needed to help a war torn world crying out for succour.

He felt sure that greatest possible amount of diversity was in and of itself highly dynamic and creative.

His mantra was along the line of "with help from all, there hope for all".

Today, as we face an even greater global crisis than WWII, it still looks like a rule to live - and to go on living - by .....

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I write, urgently, about our world's painfully too-slow transition into a new era, the Age of Entanglement. Ironically - and typically - this supposed new era actually represents a modified return to the world's oldest philosophy.
For the ancients almost universally saw all life as thoroughly entangled, saw all lifeforms as dining together at a common table - open commensality on a global scale.
Today’s science demonstrates that for us to survive on Earth, humans must sustain the lifeforms that in turn sustain us . So, for example, for us to kill the ocean’s upper reaches will soon remove the very oxygen we need to live.
And economics confirms we can not afford to replace the tens of trillions of dollars of free goods that Nature effortlessly provides humanity annually : there is no “Mars Plan B”.